raise cane

See also: raise Cain

English

Verb

raise cane (third-person singular simple present raises cane, present participle raising cane, simple past and past participle raised cane)

  2. Eggcorn of raise Cain.
    • 2020, Tayari Jones, Silver Sparrow, Oneworld Publications, page 202:
      “I wasn’t there, but my mother told me that he raised so much cane that they had to call security.”
  4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see raise,‎ cane: for example, grow sugarcane.
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